British Media & The Asian Women’s contribution

The afternoon at London Asian Film Festival continued with panel discussion by distinguished personalities on topic ‘British Media & The Asian Women’s contribution’, after the stage was handed over by Loveena Tandon, from TV Today network.

The guests on the panel were, Baroness Flather – the first Asian women to receive a peerage, Shyama Perera – presenter and newscaster, Mamta Kash -actress and producer and Madhav Sharma – well known theatre personality with half a decade experience on stage.  

The discussion was inspiring with varied thoughts and personal experience of the guests. Respected Baroness shared her experiences of studying at the school run by sister of Sarojini Naidu and the emotional involvement with independence movement. She was of the opinion, that these might be the reason behind her not liking the Indian soaps in the British media, to name a few, Desi Rascals, Indian Summers, which does not represent the true facts of Indian culture/independence era. She also supported the thought of chasing dreams and having no plan Bs.

At one point Madhav Sharma and Shyama Parera locked horns over role of Asian ethnicity in British Media. Though, Mamta was candid enough to settle the scores and move ahead into the evening by opening the house to Q&A.

The stunning aspect was the clarity and curiosity of younger Asian generations in Briton, UK. The questions asked by them does not approve of their age of early teenage. Might be, this generation is reaping the benefits of their grand and great grand refugee (Asian) generations from African continent into UK, in early 70’s, as a result of The ethnic cleansing of Indians/Asians in Uganda by Idi Amin.

 

…Venky